research notes on the suburbs essay
john updike on realism
critical attention to the isolation of hopper
discussion of bechtles prints
discussion in air guitar of the formal european qaulities of rockwell
decay in netherlandish paintings
estes on benig ignored
estes and editing
ramos and art
morandi
bailey (hughes done, others)
katz
do the work on pearlstein and warhol sex parts
sales rewards of katz
kztz size problems
more fischl crit
do i cut currin
303 chelsea and tim gardner
arts to find images by
shore
bechtel interiors
estes cityscapes from 70-75
hockney collages
bechtle ca paintings from 1968 to 1998 (nova, volvo, caddy)
1961 nova bechtle
illustrative stubbs arabian
currier and ives horses
fine art prints
norman rockwells car painting
northern european decay paintings
Pearlstein
mickey mouse
carosuel horse
early nudes
1998 dredlock nude
nude and mirror 73
wesselmans great american nude
wesslemans 1972 tit and toe print(s)
mel ramos with animals
anteater cunninglingus
austin powers
rembrandt woman pissing
morandi
picasso women and bull
bailey
ones with eggs
tooker, benton, woods
morandi
alex katz
portraits
birch bark
the tree paintings
warhol sex pars
the two freudian paintings by fischl
fischl bedroom seires
karfield diptych
john currin
tintoretto
ryan mcginley
new gardners
russel sqoure
(how the fuck am i going to get so many works in so little time)
Sunday, July 31, 2005
Saturday, July 30, 2005
thinking again of freidlander--putting him in place with other new topographers--one of the best things of those who are not friedlanders are the obsession with quiet, alone spaces. placing friedlander in that context of course he would look insanely busy.
(my taste runs to the clean and tradtionally well composed conflicted wtih the odd bender into pop rococo...friedlander is neither)
(my taste runs to the clean and tradtionally well composed conflicted wtih the odd bender into pop rococo...friedlander is neither)
Friday, July 29, 2005
some qwik things to think about and do, and a reading list.
1) there should be some kind of aspie underground training--for how to go to bars, smoke a bong, negiote a bath house, etc--thinking about this wrt flea's kids recent diagnosis and spilling bong water all over erik-- i mean there is a chunk of shit to understand the basic above ground socialiazation skills, but not the qausi legal stuff that comes up in every day life.
2) i saw this woman on the train this morning that looked pretty standard hipster except for a perfect ronnie spector ca 1964 beehive...god was it hot.
3) two movies--big bounce and friday night lights, friday night lights was badly edited, adn was cliched in the the extreme, but it had a lovely and gorgeous performances by some minor actors, subtle, damning and deeply political. big bounce was mostly inscrutable but pretty as fuck, with casual flesh and a freeing attitude towards pleasure--extremely well shot.
4) thomas mertons nurse was named margie smith--this is all we know about her, no scholar has contacted her about merton, or if they have they have been v. discreet, even having her name is strange. i wonder whyt people have been so quiet, now that everyone is either middle aged or dead.
read:
a book on friedlander (his fotos, they are chaotic, badly composed, badly constructed, messy--and im not sure if its a lack of skill or a delibarate aesthetic choice, and if it matters? (one brilliant photo taken in salt lake--with some chemical company in a white modernist facade, with a globe embalzoned on its side froegrounded, obstructing the fake gothic of the temple--a wry comment on the protestant conflation of commerce and evagnleism that the lds are so perfect at.)
a book of joes schaltx (sp) shots of teenagers--even more of the icky lust vibe consiidering her was her teacher for most of that time.
phiadons colelction of interviews with roni horn (i like her work as a writer more then a phtog)
some national geogrpahic america shots, some wonderfully casually corperal.erotic ones of minor leuge baseball, some mennoites and some amish, some landscapes--the essays were good to, because they talked about how much he felt constricted by the aesthetic he found himself in.
and one more i cannot remeber, which i think brings me to 70.
to do
conslidate whitman notes, esp. in light of katz's book
write more on friedlander
turn theology poems into esermons for standford
power point photo realism essay
eek out the idea of labour in early shaker&lds hymns
see if robin is interested in the small sacaremnt peice, shop if not.
follow up on rachel and poloroids.
make love to neville the golourius wombat.
1) there should be some kind of aspie underground training--for how to go to bars, smoke a bong, negiote a bath house, etc--thinking about this wrt flea's kids recent diagnosis and spilling bong water all over erik-- i mean there is a chunk of shit to understand the basic above ground socialiazation skills, but not the qausi legal stuff that comes up in every day life.
2) i saw this woman on the train this morning that looked pretty standard hipster except for a perfect ronnie spector ca 1964 beehive...god was it hot.
3) two movies--big bounce and friday night lights, friday night lights was badly edited, adn was cliched in the the extreme, but it had a lovely and gorgeous performances by some minor actors, subtle, damning and deeply political. big bounce was mostly inscrutable but pretty as fuck, with casual flesh and a freeing attitude towards pleasure--extremely well shot.
4) thomas mertons nurse was named margie smith--this is all we know about her, no scholar has contacted her about merton, or if they have they have been v. discreet, even having her name is strange. i wonder whyt people have been so quiet, now that everyone is either middle aged or dead.
read:
a book on friedlander (his fotos, they are chaotic, badly composed, badly constructed, messy--and im not sure if its a lack of skill or a delibarate aesthetic choice, and if it matters? (one brilliant photo taken in salt lake--with some chemical company in a white modernist facade, with a globe embalzoned on its side froegrounded, obstructing the fake gothic of the temple--a wry comment on the protestant conflation of commerce and evagnleism that the lds are so perfect at.)
a book of joes schaltx (sp) shots of teenagers--even more of the icky lust vibe consiidering her was her teacher for most of that time.
phiadons colelction of interviews with roni horn (i like her work as a writer more then a phtog)
some national geogrpahic america shots, some wonderfully casually corperal.erotic ones of minor leuge baseball, some mennoites and some amish, some landscapes--the essays were good to, because they talked about how much he felt constricted by the aesthetic he found himself in.
and one more i cannot remeber, which i think brings me to 70.
to do
conslidate whitman notes, esp. in light of katz's book
write more on friedlander
turn theology poems into esermons for standford
power point photo realism essay
eek out the idea of labour in early shaker&lds hymns
see if robin is interested in the small sacaremnt peice, shop if not.
follow up on rachel and poloroids.
make love to neville the golourius wombat.
Monday, July 25, 2005
Sunday, July 24, 2005
Saturday, July 23, 2005
http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/07/22/opinion/edroy.php
brilliant essay about the rise of goblal terrorist networks, against the tradtional wisdom of it as a result of the wars in the mid east, and more in relation to the marxist student rhetoric of the red brigades, the weather people and bader meinhoff in the late 60s.
astonishing remodelling and well worth reading
brilliant essay about the rise of goblal terrorist networks, against the tradtional wisdom of it as a result of the wars in the mid east, and more in relation to the marxist student rhetoric of the red brigades, the weather people and bader meinhoff in the late 60s.
astonishing remodelling and well worth reading
From Melas Summer 1999
Morrison's Beloved: Allegorically Othering "White" Christianity
Peggy Oocha
An exegetical reading of Morrison's novel seems almost inevitable since she chooses a New Testament reference, one which--not incidentally--involves a male speaker and a beloved female, as the epigraph to her novel: "I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved" (Romans 9:25).(4) In the original context of Romans, this quotation refers to God's claiming the Gentiles as part of his beloved people, a group which had historically been restricted to Jews. As Mae G. Henderson notes, in her insightful "Toni Morrison's Beloved: Re-Membering the Body as Historical Text," the passage from Romans "repeats with little difference a passage from the Old Testament" (64). The passage to which Henderson refers but does not quote directly reads, "I will have mercy upon her that had not obtained mercy; and I will say to them which were not my people, Thou art my people; and they shall say, Thou art my God" (Hosea 2:23). Although there appears to be little difference in the wording of the two Biblical passages, this slight difference in semantics does not diminish the immense difference in the historical relationship between Jews and Christians when the passage is read allegorically and in Biblical context. (1)
Recognizing the dynamics of "othering" can lead to an appreciation for the deeper levels of meaning in the allegorical relationship Morrison creates through her use of Paul's epistle to the Romans. According to another of Paul's epistles, this one to the Ephesians, God extended His offer of acceptance in the beloved to Gentiles who became Christians (1:6).(5)
Morrison here aligns her "beloved" blacks with early Christian martyrs, while simultaneously making an analogy between the hypocrisy of the self-righteous Pharisees and that of white Christian Americans, in effect, strategically "othering" white Christianity as less than the ideal defined by Scripture. (7)
.
...just as early Christians separated their religious observances from those of the Jews who refused to accept them as part of God's beloved people, freed blacks set up their own type of worship services separate from white society and the organized white Christian church....
And from her Bibilogrpahy
Bowers, Susan. "Beloved and the New Apocalypse." Journal of Ethnic Studies 18 (1990): 59-77.
Mitchell, Carolyn A. "`I Love to Tell the Story': Biblical Revisions in Beloved." Religion and Literature 23.3 (1991): 27-42.
Roni Horn on Emily Dickinson
Dickinsons invention was multipaction, her self and emprical reach: everything that could be felt, ehard, seen or smelt, everything precetpible, everything discenible from 280 main street, ahmerst Mass. Perceptible inclused the library, somehow dickionson used the library as an emperical source, somehow she learned to consme its contenst sensorially. HEr library ws not a source of aquired knowledge not a tool of the intellect. GEr library was simply another perceptile thing becoming another entracne, confirmation fo all she sense in the world. Even her poems about God and dEd are eyewitnesses.
qouted by Phiadon, Roni Horn , Pooling Waters.
Morrison's Beloved: Allegorically Othering "White" Christianity
Peggy Oocha
An exegetical reading of Morrison's novel seems almost inevitable since she chooses a New Testament reference, one which--not incidentally--involves a male speaker and a beloved female, as the epigraph to her novel: "I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved" (Romans 9:25).(4) In the original context of Romans, this quotation refers to God's claiming the Gentiles as part of his beloved people, a group which had historically been restricted to Jews. As Mae G. Henderson notes, in her insightful "Toni Morrison's Beloved: Re-Membering the Body as Historical Text," the passage from Romans "repeats with little difference a passage from the Old Testament" (64). The passage to which Henderson refers but does not quote directly reads, "I will have mercy upon her that had not obtained mercy; and I will say to them which were not my people, Thou art my people; and they shall say, Thou art my God" (Hosea 2:23). Although there appears to be little difference in the wording of the two Biblical passages, this slight difference in semantics does not diminish the immense difference in the historical relationship between Jews and Christians when the passage is read allegorically and in Biblical context. (1)
Recognizing the dynamics of "othering" can lead to an appreciation for the deeper levels of meaning in the allegorical relationship Morrison creates through her use of Paul's epistle to the Romans. According to another of Paul's epistles, this one to the Ephesians, God extended His offer of acceptance in the beloved to Gentiles who became Christians (1:6).(5)
Morrison here aligns her "beloved" blacks with early Christian martyrs, while simultaneously making an analogy between the hypocrisy of the self-righteous Pharisees and that of white Christian Americans, in effect, strategically "othering" white Christianity as less than the ideal defined by Scripture. (7)
.
...just as early Christians separated their religious observances from those of the Jews who refused to accept them as part of God's beloved people, freed blacks set up their own type of worship services separate from white society and the organized white Christian church....
And from her Bibilogrpahy
Bowers, Susan. "Beloved and the New Apocalypse." Journal of Ethnic Studies 18 (1990): 59-77.
Mitchell, Carolyn A. "`I Love to Tell the Story': Biblical Revisions in Beloved." Religion and Literature 23.3 (1991): 27-42.
Roni Horn on Emily Dickinson
Dickinsons invention was multipaction, her self and emprical reach: everything that could be felt, ehard, seen or smelt, everything precetpible, everything discenible from 280 main street, ahmerst Mass. Perceptible inclused the library, somehow dickionson used the library as an emperical source, somehow she learned to consme its contenst sensorially. HEr library ws not a source of aquired knowledge not a tool of the intellect. GEr library was simply another perceptile thing becoming another entracne, confirmation fo all she sense in the world. Even her poems about God and dEd are eyewitnesses.
qouted by Phiadon, Roni Horn , Pooling Waters.
From Melas Summer 1999
Morrison's Beloved: Allegorically Othering "White" Christianity
Peggy Oocha
An exegetical reading of Morrison's novel seems almost inevitable since she chooses a New Testament reference, one which--not incidentally--involves a male speaker and a beloved female, as the epigraph to her novel: "I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved" (Romans 9:25).(4) In the original context of Romans, this quotation refers to God's claiming the Gentiles as part of his beloved people, a group which had historically been restricted to Jews. As Mae G. Henderson notes, in her insightful "Toni Morrison's Beloved: Re-Membering the Body as Historical Text," the passage from Romans "repeats with little difference a passage from the Old Testament" (64). The passage to which Henderson refers but does not quote directly reads, "I will have mercy upon her that had not obtained mercy; and I will say to them which were not my people, Thou art my people; and they shall say, Thou art my God" (Hosea 2:23). Although there appears to be little difference in the wording of the two Biblical passages, this slight difference in semantics does not diminish the immense difference in the historical relationship between Jews and Christians when the passage is read allegorically and in Biblical context. (1)
Recognizing the dynamics of "othering" can lead to an appreciation for the deeper levels of meaning in the allegorical relationship Morrison creates through her use of Paul's epistle to the Romans. According to another of Paul's epistles, this one to the Ephesians, God extended His offer of acceptance in the beloved to Gentiles who became Christians (1:6).(5)
Morrison here aligns her "beloved" blacks with early Christian martyrs, while simultaneously making an analogy between the hypocrisy of the self-righteous Pharisees and that of white Christian Americans, in effect, strategically "othering" white Christianity as less than the ideal defined by Scripture. (7)
.
...just as early Christians separated their religious observances from those of the Jews who refused to accept them as part of God's beloved people, freed blacks set up their own type of worship services separate from white society and the organized white Christian church....
And from her Bibilogrpahy
Bowers, Susan. "Beloved and the New Apocalypse." Journal of Ethnic Studies 18 (1990): 59-77.
Mitchell, Carolyn A. "`I Love to Tell the Story': Biblical Revisions in Beloved." Religion and Literature 23.3 (1991): 27-42.
Roni Horn on Emily Dickinson
Dickinsons invention was multipaction, her self and emprical reach: everything that could be felt, ehard, seen or smelt, everything precetpible, everything discenible from 280 main street, ahmerst Mass. Perceptible inclused the library, somehow dickionson used the library as an emperical source, somehow she learned to consme its contenst sensorially. HEr library ws not a source of aquired knowledge not a tool of the intellect. GEr library was simply another perceptile thing becoming another entracne, confirmation fo all she sense in the world. Even her poems about God and dEd are eyewitnesses.
qouted by Phiadon, Roni Horn , Pooling Waters.
Morrison's Beloved: Allegorically Othering "White" Christianity
Peggy Oocha
An exegetical reading of Morrison's novel seems almost inevitable since she chooses a New Testament reference, one which--not incidentally--involves a male speaker and a beloved female, as the epigraph to her novel: "I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved" (Romans 9:25).(4) In the original context of Romans, this quotation refers to God's claiming the Gentiles as part of his beloved people, a group which had historically been restricted to Jews. As Mae G. Henderson notes, in her insightful "Toni Morrison's Beloved: Re-Membering the Body as Historical Text," the passage from Romans "repeats with little difference a passage from the Old Testament" (64). The passage to which Henderson refers but does not quote directly reads, "I will have mercy upon her that had not obtained mercy; and I will say to them which were not my people, Thou art my people; and they shall say, Thou art my God" (Hosea 2:23). Although there appears to be little difference in the wording of the two Biblical passages, this slight difference in semantics does not diminish the immense difference in the historical relationship between Jews and Christians when the passage is read allegorically and in Biblical context. (1)
Recognizing the dynamics of "othering" can lead to an appreciation for the deeper levels of meaning in the allegorical relationship Morrison creates through her use of Paul's epistle to the Romans. According to another of Paul's epistles, this one to the Ephesians, God extended His offer of acceptance in the beloved to Gentiles who became Christians (1:6).(5)
Morrison here aligns her "beloved" blacks with early Christian martyrs, while simultaneously making an analogy between the hypocrisy of the self-righteous Pharisees and that of white Christian Americans, in effect, strategically "othering" white Christianity as less than the ideal defined by Scripture. (7)
.
...just as early Christians separated their religious observances from those of the Jews who refused to accept them as part of God's beloved people, freed blacks set up their own type of worship services separate from white society and the organized white Christian church....
And from her Bibilogrpahy
Bowers, Susan. "Beloved and the New Apocalypse." Journal of Ethnic Studies 18 (1990): 59-77.
Mitchell, Carolyn A. "`I Love to Tell the Story': Biblical Revisions in Beloved." Religion and Literature 23.3 (1991): 27-42.
Roni Horn on Emily Dickinson
Dickinsons invention was multipaction, her self and emprical reach: everything that could be felt, ehard, seen or smelt, everything precetpible, everything discenible from 280 main street, ahmerst Mass. Perceptible inclused the library, somehow dickionson used the library as an emperical source, somehow she learned to consme its contenst sensorially. HEr library ws not a source of aquired knowledge not a tool of the intellect. GEr library was simply another perceptile thing becoming another entracne, confirmation fo all she sense in the world. Even her poems about God and dEd are eyewitnesses.
qouted by Phiadon, Roni Horn , Pooling Waters.
From Melas Summer 1999
Morrison's Beloved: Allegorically Othering "White" Christianity
Peggy Oocha
An exegetical reading of Morrison's novel seems almost inevitable since she chooses a New Testament reference, one which--not incidentally--involves a male speaker and a beloved female, as the epigraph to her novel: "I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved" (Romans 9:25).(4) In the original context of Romans, this quotation refers to God's claiming the Gentiles as part of his beloved people, a group which had historically been restricted to Jews. As Mae G. Henderson notes, in her insightful "Toni Morrison's Beloved: Re-Membering the Body as Historical Text," the passage from Romans "repeats with little difference a passage from the Old Testament" (64). The passage to which Henderson refers but does not quote directly reads, "I will have mercy upon her that had not obtained mercy; and I will say to them which were not my people, Thou art my people; and they shall say, Thou art my God" (Hosea 2:23). Although there appears to be little difference in the wording of the two Biblical passages, this slight difference in semantics does not diminish the immense difference in the historical relationship between Jews and Christians when the passage is read allegorically and in Biblical context. (1)
Recognizing the dynamics of "othering" can lead to an appreciation for the deeper levels of meaning in the allegorical relationship Morrison creates through her use of Paul's epistle to the Romans. According to another of Paul's epistles, this one to the Ephesians, God extended His offer of acceptance in the beloved to Gentiles who became Christians (1:6).(5)
Morrison here aligns her "beloved" blacks with early Christian martyrs, while simultaneously making an analogy between the hypocrisy of the self-righteous Pharisees and that of white Christian Americans, in effect, strategically "othering" white Christianity as less than the ideal defined by Scripture. (7)
.
...just as early Christians separated their religious observances from those of the Jews who refused to accept them as part of God's beloved people, freed blacks set up their own type of worship services separate from white society and the organized white Christian church....
And from her Bibilogrpahy
Bowers, Susan. "Beloved and the New Apocalypse." Journal of Ethnic Studies 18 (1990): 59-77.
Mitchell, Carolyn A. "`I Love to Tell the Story': Biblical Revisions in Beloved." Religion and Literature 23.3 (1991): 27-42.
Roni Horn on Emily Dickinson
Dickinsons invention was multipaction, her self and emprical reach: everything that could be felt, ehard, seen or smelt, everything precetpible, everything discenible from 280 main street, ahmerst Mass. Perceptible inclused the library, somehow dickionson used the library as an emperical source, somehow she learned to consme its contenst sensorially. HEr library ws not a source of aquired knowledge not a tool of the intellect. GEr library was simply another perceptile thing becoming another entracne, confirmation fo all she sense in the world. Even her poems about God and dEd are eyewitnesses.
qouted by Phiadon, Roni Horn , Pooling Waters.
Morrison's Beloved: Allegorically Othering "White" Christianity
Peggy Oocha
An exegetical reading of Morrison's novel seems almost inevitable since she chooses a New Testament reference, one which--not incidentally--involves a male speaker and a beloved female, as the epigraph to her novel: "I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved" (Romans 9:25).(4) In the original context of Romans, this quotation refers to God's claiming the Gentiles as part of his beloved people, a group which had historically been restricted to Jews. As Mae G. Henderson notes, in her insightful "Toni Morrison's Beloved: Re-Membering the Body as Historical Text," the passage from Romans "repeats with little difference a passage from the Old Testament" (64). The passage to which Henderson refers but does not quote directly reads, "I will have mercy upon her that had not obtained mercy; and I will say to them which were not my people, Thou art my people; and they shall say, Thou art my God" (Hosea 2:23). Although there appears to be little difference in the wording of the two Biblical passages, this slight difference in semantics does not diminish the immense difference in the historical relationship between Jews and Christians when the passage is read allegorically and in Biblical context. (1)
Recognizing the dynamics of "othering" can lead to an appreciation for the deeper levels of meaning in the allegorical relationship Morrison creates through her use of Paul's epistle to the Romans. According to another of Paul's epistles, this one to the Ephesians, God extended His offer of acceptance in the beloved to Gentiles who became Christians (1:6).(5)
Morrison here aligns her "beloved" blacks with early Christian martyrs, while simultaneously making an analogy between the hypocrisy of the self-righteous Pharisees and that of white Christian Americans, in effect, strategically "othering" white Christianity as less than the ideal defined by Scripture. (7)
.
...just as early Christians separated their religious observances from those of the Jews who refused to accept them as part of God's beloved people, freed blacks set up their own type of worship services separate from white society and the organized white Christian church....
And from her Bibilogrpahy
Bowers, Susan. "Beloved and the New Apocalypse." Journal of Ethnic Studies 18 (1990): 59-77.
Mitchell, Carolyn A. "`I Love to Tell the Story': Biblical Revisions in Beloved." Religion and Literature 23.3 (1991): 27-42.
Roni Horn on Emily Dickinson
Dickinsons invention was multipaction, her self and emprical reach: everything that could be felt, ehard, seen or smelt, everything precetpible, everything discenible from 280 main street, ahmerst Mass. Perceptible inclused the library, somehow dickionson used the library as an emperical source, somehow she learned to consme its contenst sensorially. HEr library ws not a source of aquired knowledge not a tool of the intellect. GEr library was simply another perceptile thing becoming another entracne, confirmation fo all she sense in the world. Even her poems about God and dEd are eyewitnesses.
qouted by Phiadon, Roni Horn , Pooling Waters.
From Melas Summer 1999
Morrison's Beloved: Allegorically Othering "White" Christianity
Peggy Oocha
An exegetical reading of Morrison's novel seems almost inevitable since she chooses a New Testament reference, one which--not incidentally--involves a male speaker and a beloved female, as the epigraph to her novel: "I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved" (Romans 9:25).(4) In the original context of Romans, this quotation refers to God's claiming the Gentiles as part of his beloved people, a group which had historically been restricted to Jews. As Mae G. Henderson notes, in her insightful "Toni Morrison's Beloved: Re-Membering the Body as Historical Text," the passage from Romans "repeats with little difference a passage from the Old Testament" (64). The passage to which Henderson refers but does not quote directly reads, "I will have mercy upon her that had not obtained mercy; and I will say to them which were not my people, Thou art my people; and they shall say, Thou art my God" (Hosea 2:23). Although there appears to be little difference in the wording of the two Biblical passages, this slight difference in semantics does not diminish the immense difference in the historical relationship between Jews and Christians when the passage is read allegorically and in Biblical context. (1)
Recognizing the dynamics of "othering" can lead to an appreciation for the deeper levels of meaning in the allegorical relationship Morrison creates through her use of Paul's epistle to the Romans. According to another of Paul's epistles, this one to the Ephesians, God extended His offer of acceptance in the beloved to Gentiles who became Christians (1:6).(5)
Morrison here aligns her "beloved" blacks with early Christian martyrs, while simultaneously making an analogy between the hypocrisy of the self-righteous Pharisees and that of white Christian Americans, in effect, strategically "othering" white Christianity as less than the ideal defined by Scripture. (7)
.
...just as early Christians separated their religious observances from those of the Jews who refused to accept them as part of God's beloved people, freed blacks set up their own type of worship services separate from white society and the organized white Christian church....
And from her Bibilogrpahy
Bowers, Susan. "Beloved and the New Apocalypse." Journal of Ethnic Studies 18 (1990): 59-77.
Mitchell, Carolyn A. "`I Love to Tell the Story': Biblical Revisions in Beloved." Religion and Literature 23.3 (1991): 27-42.
Morrison's Beloved: Allegorically Othering "White" Christianity
Peggy Oocha
An exegetical reading of Morrison's novel seems almost inevitable since she chooses a New Testament reference, one which--not incidentally--involves a male speaker and a beloved female, as the epigraph to her novel: "I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved" (Romans 9:25).(4) In the original context of Romans, this quotation refers to God's claiming the Gentiles as part of his beloved people, a group which had historically been restricted to Jews. As Mae G. Henderson notes, in her insightful "Toni Morrison's Beloved: Re-Membering the Body as Historical Text," the passage from Romans "repeats with little difference a passage from the Old Testament" (64). The passage to which Henderson refers but does not quote directly reads, "I will have mercy upon her that had not obtained mercy; and I will say to them which were not my people, Thou art my people; and they shall say, Thou art my God" (Hosea 2:23). Although there appears to be little difference in the wording of the two Biblical passages, this slight difference in semantics does not diminish the immense difference in the historical relationship between Jews and Christians when the passage is read allegorically and in Biblical context. (1)
Recognizing the dynamics of "othering" can lead to an appreciation for the deeper levels of meaning in the allegorical relationship Morrison creates through her use of Paul's epistle to the Romans. According to another of Paul's epistles, this one to the Ephesians, God extended His offer of acceptance in the beloved to Gentiles who became Christians (1:6).(5)
Morrison here aligns her "beloved" blacks with early Christian martyrs, while simultaneously making an analogy between the hypocrisy of the self-righteous Pharisees and that of white Christian Americans, in effect, strategically "othering" white Christianity as less than the ideal defined by Scripture. (7)
.
...just as early Christians separated their religious observances from those of the Jews who refused to accept them as part of God's beloved people, freed blacks set up their own type of worship services separate from white society and the organized white Christian church....
And from her Bibilogrpahy
Bowers, Susan. "Beloved and the New Apocalypse." Journal of Ethnic Studies 18 (1990): 59-77.
Mitchell, Carolyn A. "`I Love to Tell the Story': Biblical Revisions in Beloved." Religion and Literature 23.3 (1991): 27-42.
Friday, July 22, 2005
*liz had her funeral today--in the woods near london, with friends and family near by. not a bad way to be buried
*an expert on islam from temple university was qouted on anderson cooper today saying that the aclu should stop whining and bitching until something real came along--the price of freedom is constant vilgence& im worried about saying this, because it always gets worse, but its bad enough that aclu should be shouting louder.
* ann coulter is accused by moby lives of plagarzing, about art--but its just a rehash of the same peices--you can describe reactionary attitudes towards transgressive art in a v. limited set of ways--i think shes more then a bit of a bitch, but i doubt shes a plagarist. (and i think shes actually a pretty good polemcist)
* the nypd is searching bags randomly in the war against terror and/or drugs--ineffective, and contiuned the dismantling of the 4th ammendment.
* 14/16 of the patroit acts section are now permanat law, with 2/16 renewed for another 10 years. god save us.
* the cia has gotten permission to intergate irish citizens on irish soil w/o irish police (did the ira teach aq counter insurgency tactics---is there an opressed people of the world vibe here?) (more imptly is there a people of the book thing)
* london police bundled a guy in the subway and shot him five times close in the head and chest, leaving him dead---muslims aouted by cnn view it as a racist and excessive move, but w/i 10 minutes of the shooting there were 5 ineffective bombs that went out on the oppoiste axis of the bombs a couple of weeks ago--rumour that it was supposed to be a faming cross what ever the fuck that means
* canadian bishops prevent the baptiszing of children of queer parents--knowing about orignal sin makes this an esp. egregious exclusion, and means that basically not only queer folx, but the family of queer folx are forbidden from being part of almost any sacraemnt (up to 2, 3 if you include arguements about forbidding communion to gay positive politicans)
i really need good news rignt now
*an expert on islam from temple university was qouted on anderson cooper today saying that the aclu should stop whining and bitching until something real came along--the price of freedom is constant vilgence& im worried about saying this, because it always gets worse, but its bad enough that aclu should be shouting louder.
* ann coulter is accused by moby lives of plagarzing, about art--but its just a rehash of the same peices--you can describe reactionary attitudes towards transgressive art in a v. limited set of ways--i think shes more then a bit of a bitch, but i doubt shes a plagarist. (and i think shes actually a pretty good polemcist)
* the nypd is searching bags randomly in the war against terror and/or drugs--ineffective, and contiuned the dismantling of the 4th ammendment.
* 14/16 of the patroit acts section are now permanat law, with 2/16 renewed for another 10 years. god save us.
* the cia has gotten permission to intergate irish citizens on irish soil w/o irish police (did the ira teach aq counter insurgency tactics---is there an opressed people of the world vibe here?) (more imptly is there a people of the book thing)
* london police bundled a guy in the subway and shot him five times close in the head and chest, leaving him dead---muslims aouted by cnn view it as a racist and excessive move, but w/i 10 minutes of the shooting there were 5 ineffective bombs that went out on the oppoiste axis of the bombs a couple of weeks ago--rumour that it was supposed to be a faming cross what ever the fuck that means
* canadian bishops prevent the baptiszing of children of queer parents--knowing about orignal sin makes this an esp. egregious exclusion, and means that basically not only queer folx, but the family of queer folx are forbidden from being part of almost any sacraemnt (up to 2, 3 if you include arguements about forbidding communion to gay positive politicans)
i really need good news rignt now
i am sure you are all riveted by me trying to sort out the religous implications of toni morrison; if you are not here are some more things that are exciting.
reading pat's co worker chris's blog he makes a tradtional refutation of porn on artistic merrit and not scaring breeders, both of which sort of piss me off.
a) why should queer folx care about pleasing straights, it is our culture that is being banned, censored, destroyed, broken--that should be our arguement, not trying to include everyone in a peaceful kum bay aye.
b) why cannot we be honest and say that the cheif merit of this work is that it makes my cock hard--like people mocking ebert about his thumb rising with his penis, or me getting in shit for admitting the only reason i want to see FF is because of humpy chris evans (who i have already wanked too (jesus the thing was marketed that way)
(side note about the movie--worth the cash i payed mostly because of a scene where he is wearing a t shirt, with a dozen holes burnt in it, including one perfectly framing his left nipple--that left nipple, i could write sonnets about it)
reading novel gazing, and there was this strange, fecund essay about beloved in it (qouted below) that and the one she put in curiouser (i shouldnt have given my copy to glenys--she wont fucking read it) made me write a fan letter to her, askign for transcripts for lectures she delivered at yale (she has an m div there)
update on come to the garden alone--a duet from chely wright and brad paisley called something like my son--which features the strange purely american line "god how could this be yr will/to have yr son and my son die for me"--the inclusion of christ as a member of the american corpus, sort of like the mythical jimmy stewart all american soilder that emerges when the right talks about our sons over there (or the left in another capacity)
(side note--the cover art on paisleys new album is unbelivably shitty--got an advance coming via stylus, though and the first single is good)
thinking of the back lash wrt john irvings latest novel, and his sex abuse charges
a) he told the newspapers (in the globe&ew so far) that he didnt realize the 20 yr old babysitter fucking him at 11 was abusive until his later sexual behaviour, his taste for older women, the subtle shifts of authority and power that happened in the reptile brain, and thinking about my mom asking why i didnt tell her about shepred earlier, and tellign her, that i was in love with him, and also thinking about my sexual history, and how littered it is with fathers (sometimes literally) and older brothers
b) his book apparently is supposed to be much less framed then it usually is, and because of surgery. etc he could not wrestle/box/run/etc as much as he usually does during hte creation of this--in fact some of the surgery was him trying to catch up w. his son on a new track at exeter which is so typical as to move from cliche to archytype. i wonder if his physical activity relaates to his creation of the text, his novels are taut, coperal objects, resting on questions of flesh more then questions of mind--can we extrapoloate that?
notes on the drs appt.
1) waited an hour, my fault for the first 15 minutes, there fault for the rest.
2) across from me, two red haired kiwi twins, sleeping with heads on each other shoulders.
3) never read critical essays on proust while waiting for the doctor, just dont.
4) talked to the intern more then the doctor, who did the standard neurotests.
b) when he did hte narrative, he did the hmmhmm thing, to fake that he cared.
5) i suck at them, cannot walk a straight line, have to move my head to follow his finger, have no side vision, etc
6) the narrative is always in the 2nd person, because i dont know what happens when i have one of the falldowngobooms
7) they kept calling them incidents--like the dwarves were toasting with champagne, judging the fdgb like one would judge the oscars
8) pissing in the washroom, one sees a notice about herpes at about penis level--not reassuring.
9) dr gross has long black hair, a blue armani shirt that looks vaguely maoist, prentious glasses--he spent about 5 minutes with me, explaining that he was taking me off the larger list and getting me on the two hour telemetry.
10) he told me that well tagetrol made it worse, like this was the key to everything, but didnt give me any information.
11) three people where there, the intern, dr gross, and a woman called daphene, who had no role i could determine.
12) the three to one really didnt help the anxiety i always have in drs officess.
13) at the end, i always feel like gulliver being tied down by a million people, the size of ants.
14) 18 months for the larger telemetry.
reading pat's co worker chris's blog he makes a tradtional refutation of porn on artistic merrit and not scaring breeders, both of which sort of piss me off.
a) why should queer folx care about pleasing straights, it is our culture that is being banned, censored, destroyed, broken--that should be our arguement, not trying to include everyone in a peaceful kum bay aye.
b) why cannot we be honest and say that the cheif merit of this work is that it makes my cock hard--like people mocking ebert about his thumb rising with his penis, or me getting in shit for admitting the only reason i want to see FF is because of humpy chris evans (who i have already wanked too (jesus the thing was marketed that way)
(side note about the movie--worth the cash i payed mostly because of a scene where he is wearing a t shirt, with a dozen holes burnt in it, including one perfectly framing his left nipple--that left nipple, i could write sonnets about it)
reading novel gazing, and there was this strange, fecund essay about beloved in it (qouted below) that and the one she put in curiouser (i shouldnt have given my copy to glenys--she wont fucking read it) made me write a fan letter to her, askign for transcripts for lectures she delivered at yale (she has an m div there)
update on come to the garden alone--a duet from chely wright and brad paisley called something like my son--which features the strange purely american line "god how could this be yr will/to have yr son and my son die for me"--the inclusion of christ as a member of the american corpus, sort of like the mythical jimmy stewart all american soilder that emerges when the right talks about our sons over there (or the left in another capacity)
(side note--the cover art on paisleys new album is unbelivably shitty--got an advance coming via stylus, though and the first single is good)
thinking of the back lash wrt john irvings latest novel, and his sex abuse charges
a) he told the newspapers (in the globe&ew so far) that he didnt realize the 20 yr old babysitter fucking him at 11 was abusive until his later sexual behaviour, his taste for older women, the subtle shifts of authority and power that happened in the reptile brain, and thinking about my mom asking why i didnt tell her about shepred earlier, and tellign her, that i was in love with him, and also thinking about my sexual history, and how littered it is with fathers (sometimes literally) and older brothers
b) his book apparently is supposed to be much less framed then it usually is, and because of surgery. etc he could not wrestle/box/run/etc as much as he usually does during hte creation of this--in fact some of the surgery was him trying to catch up w. his son on a new track at exeter which is so typical as to move from cliche to archytype. i wonder if his physical activity relaates to his creation of the text, his novels are taut, coperal objects, resting on questions of flesh more then questions of mind--can we extrapoloate that?
notes on the drs appt.
1) waited an hour, my fault for the first 15 minutes, there fault for the rest.
2) across from me, two red haired kiwi twins, sleeping with heads on each other shoulders.
3) never read critical essays on proust while waiting for the doctor, just dont.
4) talked to the intern more then the doctor, who did the standard neurotests.
b) when he did hte narrative, he did the hmmhmm thing, to fake that he cared.
5) i suck at them, cannot walk a straight line, have to move my head to follow his finger, have no side vision, etc
6) the narrative is always in the 2nd person, because i dont know what happens when i have one of the falldowngobooms
7) they kept calling them incidents--like the dwarves were toasting with champagne, judging the fdgb like one would judge the oscars
8) pissing in the washroom, one sees a notice about herpes at about penis level--not reassuring.
9) dr gross has long black hair, a blue armani shirt that looks vaguely maoist, prentious glasses--he spent about 5 minutes with me, explaining that he was taking me off the larger list and getting me on the two hour telemetry.
10) he told me that well tagetrol made it worse, like this was the key to everything, but didnt give me any information.
11) three people where there, the intern, dr gross, and a woman called daphene, who had no role i could determine.
12) the three to one really didnt help the anxiety i always have in drs officess.
13) at the end, i always feel like gulliver being tied down by a million people, the size of ants.
14) 18 months for the larger telemetry.
i am sure you are all riveted by me trying to sort out the religous implications of toni morrison; if you are not here are some more things that are exciting.
reading pat's co worker chris's blog he makes a tradtional refutation of porn on artistic merrit and not scaring breeders, both of which sort of piss me off.
a) why should queer folx care about pleasing straights, it is our culture that is being banned, censored, destroyed, broken--that should be our arguement, not trying to include everyone in a peaceful kum bay aye.
b) why cannot we be honest and say that the cheif merit of this work is that it makes my cock hard--like people mocking ebert about his thumb rising with his penis, or me getting in shit for admitting the only reason i want to see FF is because of humpy chris evans (who i have already wanked too (jesus the thing was marketed that way)
(side note about the movie--worth the cash i payed mostly because of a scene where he is wearing a t shirt, with a dozen holes burnt in it, including one perfectly framing his left nipple--that left nipple, i could write sonnets about it)
reading novel gazing, and there was this strange, fecund essay about beloved in it (qouted below) that and the one she put in curiouser (i shouldnt have given my copy to glenys--she wont fucking read it) made me write a fan letter to her, askign for transcripts for lectures she delivered at yale (she has an m div there)
update on come to the garden alone--a duet from chely wright and brad paisley called something like my son--which features the strange purely american line "god how could this be yr will/to have yr son and my son die for me"--the inclusion of christ as a member of the american corpus, sort of like the mythical jimmy stewart all american soilder that emerges when the right talks about our sons over there (or the left in another capacity)
(side note--the cover art on paisleys new album is unbelivably shitty--got an advance coming via stylus, though and the first single is good)
thinking of the back lash wrt john irvings latest novel, and his sex abuse charges
a) he told the newspapers (in the globe&ew so far) that he didnt realize the 20 yr old babysitter fucking him at 11 was abusive until his later sexual behaviour, his taste for older women, the subtle shifts of authority and power that happened in the reptile brain, and thinking about my mom asking why i didnt tell her about shepred earlier, and tellign her, that i was in love with him, and also thinking about my sexual history, and how littered it is with fathers (sometimes literally) and older brothers
b) his book apparently is supposed to be much less framed then it usually is, and because of surgery. etc he could not wrestle/box/run/etc as much as he usually does during hte creation of this--in fact some of the surgery was him trying to catch up w. his son on a new track at exeter which is so typical as to move from cliche to archytype. i wonder if his physical activity relaates to his creation of the text, his novels are taut, coperal objects, resting on questions of flesh more then questions of mind--can we extrapoloate that?
notes on the drs appt.
1) waited an hour, my fault for the first 15 minutes, there fault for the rest.
2) across from me, two red haired kiwi twins, sleeping with heads on each other shoulders.
3) never read critical essays on proust while waiting for the doctor, just dont.
4) talked to the intern more then the doctor, who did the standard neurotests.
b) when he did hte narrative, he did the hmmhmm thing, to fake that he cared.
5) i suck at them, cannot walk a straight line, have to move my head to follow his finger, have no side vision, etc
6) the narrative is always in the 2nd person, because i dont know what happens when i have one of the falldowngobooms
7) they kept calling them incidents--like the dwarves were toasting with champagne, judging the fdgb like one would judge the oscars
8) pissing in the washroom, one sees a notice about herpes at about penis level--not reassuring.
9) dr gross has long black hair, a blue armani shirt that looks vaguely maoist, prentious glasses--he spent about 5 minutes with me, explaining that he was taking me off the larger list and getting me on the two hour telemetry.
10) he told me that well tagetrol made it worse, like this was the key to everything, but didnt give me any information.
11) three people where there, the intern, dr gross, and a woman called daphene, who had no role i could determine.
12) the three to one really didnt help the anxiety i always have in drs officess.
13) at the end, i always feel like gulliver being tied down by a million people, the size of ants.
14) 18 months for the larger telemetry.
reading pat's co worker chris's blog he makes a tradtional refutation of porn on artistic merrit and not scaring breeders, both of which sort of piss me off.
a) why should queer folx care about pleasing straights, it is our culture that is being banned, censored, destroyed, broken--that should be our arguement, not trying to include everyone in a peaceful kum bay aye.
b) why cannot we be honest and say that the cheif merit of this work is that it makes my cock hard--like people mocking ebert about his thumb rising with his penis, or me getting in shit for admitting the only reason i want to see FF is because of humpy chris evans (who i have already wanked too (jesus the thing was marketed that way)
(side note about the movie--worth the cash i payed mostly because of a scene where he is wearing a t shirt, with a dozen holes burnt in it, including one perfectly framing his left nipple--that left nipple, i could write sonnets about it)
reading novel gazing, and there was this strange, fecund essay about beloved in it (qouted below) that and the one she put in curiouser (i shouldnt have given my copy to glenys--she wont fucking read it) made me write a fan letter to her, askign for transcripts for lectures she delivered at yale (she has an m div there)
update on come to the garden alone--a duet from chely wright and brad paisley called something like my son--which features the strange purely american line "god how could this be yr will/to have yr son and my son die for me"--the inclusion of christ as a member of the american corpus, sort of like the mythical jimmy stewart all american soilder that emerges when the right talks about our sons over there (or the left in another capacity)
(side note--the cover art on paisleys new album is unbelivably shitty--got an advance coming via stylus, though and the first single is good)
thinking of the back lash wrt john irvings latest novel, and his sex abuse charges
a) he told the newspapers (in the globe&ew so far) that he didnt realize the 20 yr old babysitter fucking him at 11 was abusive until his later sexual behaviour, his taste for older women, the subtle shifts of authority and power that happened in the reptile brain, and thinking about my mom asking why i didnt tell her about shepred earlier, and tellign her, that i was in love with him, and also thinking about my sexual history, and how littered it is with fathers (sometimes literally) and older brothers
b) his book apparently is supposed to be much less framed then it usually is, and because of surgery. etc he could not wrestle/box/run/etc as much as he usually does during hte creation of this--in fact some of the surgery was him trying to catch up w. his son on a new track at exeter which is so typical as to move from cliche to archytype. i wonder if his physical activity relaates to his creation of the text, his novels are taut, coperal objects, resting on questions of flesh more then questions of mind--can we extrapoloate that?
notes on the drs appt.
1) waited an hour, my fault for the first 15 minutes, there fault for the rest.
2) across from me, two red haired kiwi twins, sleeping with heads on each other shoulders.
3) never read critical essays on proust while waiting for the doctor, just dont.
4) talked to the intern more then the doctor, who did the standard neurotests.
b) when he did hte narrative, he did the hmmhmm thing, to fake that he cared.
5) i suck at them, cannot walk a straight line, have to move my head to follow his finger, have no side vision, etc
6) the narrative is always in the 2nd person, because i dont know what happens when i have one of the falldowngobooms
7) they kept calling them incidents--like the dwarves were toasting with champagne, judging the fdgb like one would judge the oscars
8) pissing in the washroom, one sees a notice about herpes at about penis level--not reassuring.
9) dr gross has long black hair, a blue armani shirt that looks vaguely maoist, prentious glasses--he spent about 5 minutes with me, explaining that he was taking me off the larger list and getting me on the two hour telemetry.
10) he told me that well tagetrol made it worse, like this was the key to everything, but didnt give me any information.
11) three people where there, the intern, dr gross, and a woman called daphene, who had no role i could determine.
12) the three to one really didnt help the anxiety i always have in drs officess.
13) at the end, i always feel like gulliver being tied down by a million people, the size of ants.
14) 18 months for the larger telemetry.
(also think of beloved, and the iron, how the scars are called iron)
(also the fable of the bird she tells often, most powerfully at the nobel prize cermony)
(as well, her isolation of language as a tool of the white opresser, and connecting that to logos)
some books to read by her
Racing Justice/Engendering Power
Playing In The Dark: Whitness and The Literary Imaganation
About her:
The Toni Morrison Encly.
The Signifying Monkey--HLG
John N. Duvall. The Identifying Fictions of Toni Morrison: Modernist Authenticity and Postmodern Blackness
Marc C. Conner, ed. The Aesthetics of Toni Morrison: Speaking the Unspeakable.
J. Brooks Bouson. Quiet As It's Kept: Shame, Trauma, and Race in the Novels of Toni Morrison
William L. Andrews and Nellie Y. McKay, eds. Toni Morrison's Beloved: A Casebook,
HR Rice Toni Morrison and The American Tradtion
Slavery and the Literary Imagination, Deborah McDowel
Qoutes From Her:
For parading their power and her helplessness, the young visitors are reprimanded, told they are responsible not only for the act of mockery but also for the small bundle of life sacrificed to achieve its aims. The blind woman shifts attention away from assertions of power to the instrument through which that power is exercised.
Sexist language, racist language, theistic language - all are typical of the policing languages of mastery, and cannot, do not permit new knowledge or encourage the mutual exchange of ideas.
Both from her 1993 Nobel Speech
The desperate strategy of infanticide,
interview with wolff (note 7, page 6 of essay below)
Here," she said, "in this here place, we flesh; flesh that weeps, laughs, flesh that dances on bare feet in grass. Love it. Love it hard. Yonder they don't love your flesh. They despise it....And O my people they do not love your hands. Those they only use, tie, bind, chop off and leave empty. Love your hands! Love them....the beat and beating heart, love that too....For this is the prize." (88-87, Beloved)
From Jeanna Furston White, in Fall 2003 AA Review
The horrifying scene of Sethe swinging her infant toward the wall while her three other children lay bleeding is described in the novel from varying perspectives, each processsed by the teller. (7) Sethe' "rememory" of the act shows its distance from madness, its proximity to agency. Sethe is a thinking subject who acts and uses reason to form what appears to her a logically and rationally determined resolution to kill/save her children: (cf YHWH/X c/c Abram/Isaac/The Ram)
(also the fable of the bird she tells often, most powerfully at the nobel prize cermony)
(as well, her isolation of language as a tool of the white opresser, and connecting that to logos)
some books to read by her
Racing Justice/Engendering Power
Playing In The Dark: Whitness and The Literary Imaganation
About her:
The Toni Morrison Encly.
The Signifying Monkey--HLG
John N. Duvall. The Identifying Fictions of Toni Morrison: Modernist Authenticity and Postmodern Blackness
Marc C. Conner, ed. The Aesthetics of Toni Morrison: Speaking the Unspeakable.
J. Brooks Bouson. Quiet As It's Kept: Shame, Trauma, and Race in the Novels of Toni Morrison
William L. Andrews and Nellie Y. McKay, eds. Toni Morrison's Beloved: A Casebook,
HR Rice Toni Morrison and The American Tradtion
Slavery and the Literary Imagination, Deborah McDowel
Qoutes From Her:
For parading their power and her helplessness, the young visitors are reprimanded, told they are responsible not only for the act of mockery but also for the small bundle of life sacrificed to achieve its aims. The blind woman shifts attention away from assertions of power to the instrument through which that power is exercised.
Sexist language, racist language, theistic language - all are typical of the policing languages of mastery, and cannot, do not permit new knowledge or encourage the mutual exchange of ideas.
Both from her 1993 Nobel Speech
The desperate strategy of infanticide,
interview with wolff (note 7, page 6 of essay below)
Here," she said, "in this here place, we flesh; flesh that weeps, laughs, flesh that dances on bare feet in grass. Love it. Love it hard. Yonder they don't love your flesh. They despise it....And O my people they do not love your hands. Those they only use, tie, bind, chop off and leave empty. Love your hands! Love them....the beat and beating heart, love that too....For this is the prize." (88-87, Beloved)
From Jeanna Furston White, in Fall 2003 AA Review
The horrifying scene of Sethe swinging her infant toward the wall while her three other children lay bleeding is described in the novel from varying perspectives, each processsed by the teller. (7) Sethe' "rememory" of the act shows its distance from madness, its proximity to agency. Sethe is a thinking subject who acts and uses reason to form what appears to her a logically and rationally determined resolution to kill/save her children: (cf YHWH/X c/c Abram/Isaac/The Ram)
AnthonySEaston (2:14:53 AM): and i think that beloved is this silmetanous rejection and absorbtion of the dual metaphors of moses and jesus
pattismithsmense (2:16:00 AM): perhaps - moses only makes sense as a man who leads out of... who led the blacks out of? Noone - but jesus led the blacks through. well, apart from the most blessed brother Elijah and his family.
AnthonySEaston (2:16:28 AM): yeah,
AnthonySEaston (2:16:47 AM): in the spirtuals the elijah and the moses references are about even
pattismithsmense (2:16:50 AM): but, like auntie fouc reminds us, power relationships work both ways - what helped the blacks has kept the blacks down.
AnthonySEaston (2:17:19 AM): exactly
pattismithsmense (2:17:26 AM): i wonder what the worshi[pers of Job might say?
AnthonySEaston (2:17:38 AM): and thats what the dual figure of martin and malcom reminded the (AA) corpus in the 60s
pattismithsmense (2:18:24 AM): yep... and as the youth looked on, saw both of them whacked not to mention the panthers, makes sense that gangland and crackdom rose up big on the temple mount
pattismithsmense (2:16:00 AM): perhaps - moses only makes sense as a man who leads out of... who led the blacks out of? Noone - but jesus led the blacks through. well, apart from the most blessed brother Elijah and his family.
AnthonySEaston (2:16:28 AM): yeah,
AnthonySEaston (2:16:47 AM): in the spirtuals the elijah and the moses references are about even
pattismithsmense (2:16:50 AM): but, like auntie fouc reminds us, power relationships work both ways - what helped the blacks has kept the blacks down.
AnthonySEaston (2:17:19 AM): exactly
pattismithsmense (2:17:26 AM): i wonder what the worshi[pers of Job might say?
AnthonySEaston (2:17:38 AM): and thats what the dual figure of martin and malcom reminded the (AA) corpus in the 60s
pattismithsmense (2:18:24 AM): yep... and as the youth looked on, saw both of them whacked not to mention the panthers, makes sense that gangland and crackdom rose up big on the temple mount
this from geoff
yep, i'm not sure I agree with her, as scapegoating writes upon the body of the jews as much as jesus but then again, xstianity doesn't separate the boyd of the beaten from that of the opressor, it calls on it to forgive, to cease, but through identification, with the body. not outside the body. the incorporation of christ's flesh, his trunk, means that he becomes us, inside of us, and that what we do to each other we do to ourselves and to christ within.
yep, i'm not sure I agree with her, as scapegoating writes upon the body of the jews as much as jesus but then again, xstianity doesn't separate the boyd of the beaten from that of the opressor, it calls on it to forgive, to cease, but through identification, with the body. not outside the body. the incorporation of christ's flesh, his trunk, means that he becomes us, inside of us, and that what we do to each other we do to ourselves and to christ within.
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